Kevin

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Kevin boys named Kevin

By the numbers

Total US births

1,189,844

Estimated living today

1 million

Median age today

46

Peak year

1963

Best rank

11th

Rank in 2025

221st

First recorded

1912

Girls / boys

5,337 / 1,184,507

How old the living Kevins are

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,189,844 babies given the name since 1912, about 1 million are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 81,000 of them are children and 139,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Name of a seventh-century Irish saint, from Irish Caoimhghin or Caoimhín, from Old Irish Cóemgen. It first became popular outside Ireland in the mid-twentieth century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Kevins

• Kevin Costner (born 1955)American actor
• Kevin Rudd (born 1957)26th Prime Minister of Australia
• Kevin De Bruyne (born 1991)Belgian association football player
• Kevin Spacey (born 1959)American actor
• Kevin Durant (born 1988)American basketball player
• Kevin Bacon (born 1958)American actor
• Kevin Kline (born 1947)American actor
• Kevin Hart (born 1979)American comedian and actor

People named Kevin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Kevin is most common

• CA139,254
• NY114,900
• IL68,108
• TX68,081
• PA61,903
• OH55,510
• MI51,234
• NJ46,721
• MA42,553
• FL41,049

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kevin is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (1.8×), Delaware (1.5×), Rhode Island (1.5×), Massachusetts (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1963

The most popular boys’ names the year Kevin peaked:

• Michael
• John
• David
• James
• Robert
• Mark

All the names of 1963

Kevin elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Kevin: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Kevin is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.35% of children were given it – 222 of them.

Kevin: rank by region

In 2025, Kevin was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Kevin was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Kevin was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Kevin appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (187th) and Province of East Flanders (264th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Kevin by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Kevin among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Kevin lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 17,120 men called Kevin were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Keven
• Kevon
• Kevan
• Kevyn
• Keva
• Kevion
• Kevonte

Kevin against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Kevin vs Keven
• Kevin vs Kevon
• Kevin vs Kevan
• Kevin vs Kevyn
• Kevin vs Keva
• Kevin vs Kevion

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